01x10 - Vanishing Calamity

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[epic choral music playing]

[narrator] The True Demon King has died.

The enemy of the world

was defeated by somebody.

But even now, the powers left behind

writhe in multitude.

They cannot be subdued

by ordinary strength.

A hundred shura-like demons…

The world's largest city, Aureatia,

proceeds with the selection of a Hero,

while the leader

of the New Principality of Lithia,

Taren the Guarded, seeks new order,

and governs through fear.

[theme music playing]

ISHURA

Episode 10 "Vanishing Calamity"

[wind gusting]

New Principality of Lithia

- [loud thumping]

- [tense music playing]

[crashing]

[chuckling]

[chuckling continues]

[Mage City soldiers panting]

- This one's for Mage City!

- [whimpers, groans]

[grunts]

Oh, no.

Mage City was our city,

and you burnt it down.

- Die!

- [squelches]

[dark choral music playing]

[Kia pants]

Professor, the fire

has spread this way too.

[Elea] Is this fire the result

of Mage City soldiers running riot?

Or was somebody else responsible?

- [Kia] Professor!

- [gasps]

[fire crackling]

[surprised grunt]

Look, women.

They must be Lithia women.

Stop already, they're not soldiers.

Who cares!

[worried gasp]

Lithia destroyed our city.

They're just as guilty!

[Elea]

Mage City soldiers are on Aureatia's side.

Getting rid of them would require

a certain level of justification.

All right, ladies, don't move.

Professor?

Wait, Kia.

Let me speak with them first.

- [Shalk] What's all this?

- [both gasp]

[Mage City soldiers] Huh?

[Shalk]

Are you two really trying to pick up girls

at a time like this?

Sounds fun. Let me join in.

This doesn't concern a construct like you!

[both gasp]

[Shalk] Now then,

you two aren't from Lithia either,

are you?

Who are you?

Not talking, huh?

[Shalk chuckles]

You speak less than the dead.

[soft grunt]

[Elea] If I can just get Kia to say "Die,"

she could k*ll that construct too.

But…

can I get her to say it

faster than he moves?

- I-I came here…

- [gasps]

…f-from the Eta Sylvan Province to study.

This person is my professor.

[Kia] So that's why…

Huh?

[Kia] You saved us, right?

Thank you.

However,

you didn't have to k*ll them.

Kia!

Don't you think so too?

They still hadn't done anything.

I could have handled things better.

- [Shalk chuckling]

- [both gasp]

[Shalk laughing]

[Shalk] Exactly.

The little girl there is right.

Lithia soldiers are evacuating citizens

on the east side.

They'll get you out.

The fires

still aren't burning strongly there.

Can I ask your name?

I no longer have it.

The name I had when I was alive, that is.

- This way! Hurry!

- [residents screaming, clamoring]

[resident] Hurry!

[soldier 1] Hurry and leave the city!

- Women and children first!

- [soldier 2] Don't push!

Kia, I think

we should leave the city after all.

But…

I know you're worried about Lana.

But you just saw how dangerous it is here.

I know.

[Elea] Kia knows nothing.

If the past me had been like this girl…

If there was just one adult

who I could trust…

If I could have been unconcerned

with the evils of the world…

No, in reality, everyone must fight

with their own strength.

It's up to me to find happiness.

Even so, let me save her.

[soft gasp]

Kia?

I'm supposed to be capable of anything.

There's no way I'll accept

not even being able to save a friend.

[soldier] This way! Hurry!

If I don't do anything to help her now,

I know I'll regret it when I'm an adult.

[gasps]

So please come with me, Ms. Elea.

Watch me do the right thing.

Because I'm invincible.

And I want to be happy.

- [soft grunt]

- [pensive music playing]

[inaudible]

[Elea] There's no longer any reason

for me to k*ll Lana the Moon Tempest.

I doubt she'll get an opportunity

to tell somebody

about me and the World Word.

But if I let Kia get her way,

somebody might find out

that the World Word exists.

Kia, please listen to me

- I want you to stay with me, Elea!

- [surprised grunt]

[soft sigh]

Yes, I know.

[delighted gasp]

[whimpers]

[Elea] Looks like it's you

who taught me something.

I'm proud to have you as my student, Kia.

[Kia panting]

- [expl*si*n]

- [rumbling]

[gasps]

Kia!

[gasps]

Stay away!

[Elea panting]

[loud thud]

Professor.

Things will go back

to how they were, right?

Like when there was peace.

- I can't say…

- It has to.

Because the city Lana loved got ruined.

[Kia] Right after she went through

a terrible ordeal.

[panting]

Don't you feel sorry for her?

Yes, I really do.

[fire crackling]

[Elea] Let's hope

everything goes back to how it was.

I was actually fond of that fountain.

[thudding]

[soldier over radio] The wyvern squad

has already been destroyed!

- They've broken through all defense lines.

- [Dakai] We're losing.

We've taken heavy damage!

The fire is particularly bad,

and we have no way of extinguishing it.

- [rumbling]

- In addition, invading Mage City soldiers

are massacring

- [thudding]

- [rumbling]

[loud thump]

[heavy stomping]

[Dakai]

The other squads have all retreated.

I'm the only one left.

[Nihilo] Is that so?

Thank you for kindly informing me.

But you should have retreated too.

You must be kidding.

The only reason I had them retreat,

was to keep them out of my way.

[Dakai] In such an interesting world,

running away would be too much of a waste.

All of this is mine.

[Nihilo chuckles]

I see.

Then watch carefully, right until the end.

Watch as it all gets crushed to bits.

[tense music playing]

[rumbling]

[grunts]

[heavy stomping]

- [thuds]

- [rumbling]

[Dakai] It's a construct.

Just like the things I saw in Nagan,

there's a core

keeping this tarantula thing alive.

Is it in its torso?

[rumbling]

I need to k*ll what's inside this thing.

So then,

what's the plan?

[heavy stomping]

[thuds]

[intense music playing]

[heavy stomping]

[thuds]

Oh, boy, that armor is hard.

You fight well, swordsman.

But you can't beat me.

Swordsman…

Swordsman, huh?

[Dakai] I can't cut through that thing.

I tried non-sword attacks too but…

A swordsman, you say?

[Dakai]

Just who was it who pierced you before?

[loud thump]

[heavy stomping]

Right there.

I was quite fond of that fountain.

[Dakai] I like buildings and scenery.

Since they can't be stolen.

[squirting]

[snickers]

[intense music playing]

[Dakai] A charge?

No, it's moving differently from before.

[surprised grunt]

[tense music playing]

A web, I knew it.

- [thuds]

- [rumbling]

I guess I'm in your web.

[rumbling]

Okay, time to die.

[scoffs]

For you it is.

[suspenseful music playing]

[zapping]

[surprised gasp]

[zapping continues]

[frizzling]

[hissing]

[suspenseful music continues playing]

[soldier over radio] Lord Dakai,

we've shone the Cold Star

as you instructed.

[zapping]

[zapping continues]

[strained groaning]

[hissing]

- [Nihilo] Hmph.

- [soft gasp]

[Nihilo chuckling]

[exhales deeply]

Ishura

Magic Item. Enchanted Sword

[Nihilo chuckling]

[Nihilo laughing]

[smashes]

- [thuds]

- [tense music playing]

- [rumbling]

- [thumps]

You've got to be kidding me.

[surprised grunt]

[soldier groans]

[rumbling]

[Nihilo] Heat and impact attacks

have no effect on Helneten.

Did you think

that would be enough to defeat me?

- [intense music playing]

- [buzzes]

[Dakai] This isn't good.

I lured that thing

into the water deliberately.

I thought the gaps of the armor

might start to bubble open

once the air heated up.

But it's completely airtight.

Isn't there a single airhole?

How does whatever's inside stay alive?

Suffocation is not an option.

Submersion is pointless.

The blade of my enchanted sword

can't penetrate it.

Bury it and it will just come back up.

Cutting it with its own thread won't work,

nor will targeting its joints.

Even the Cold Star has no effect.

[thumps]

[nervous chuckle]

Just how did someone manage

to cut this thing?

[irritated sigh]

You are

in the way!

[thwacks]

[thuds]

[annoyed groan]

[scoffs]

[Dakai] So fun. This world is so fun.

All right, guess I'll give it a try.

[tense music playing]

Are you alive?

For some reason…

[coughs]

…nobody seems to get it.

I'm not a swordsman,

I'm a bandit.

[Nihilo] Oh? We might get along well.

You see,

I want to get along with the minians,

but nobody understands!

[laughs]

Look at this. For the first time,

- we managed to have a bit of a chat.

- [gasps]

[epic music playing]

Thread?

What I really do best

is stealing weapons…

and opening locks!

[squelches]

[scoffs]

- [hatch opens]

- Huh?

[shocked gasp]

W-What did you do?

[Dakai] A cute face, just as I imagined.

[annoyed grunt]

I gave it some thought.

If that thing is a biological tank,

then it must be operated by nerves.

Even the command to open the hatch

must come from the nerves.

So I thought if that's the case,

maybe it can be destroyed

by bursting the nerves,

with the poison of a mandrake.

[narrator]

Dakai had stolen one of the poison blades

that Higuare would hide inside his body.

His unworldly observational power

is even capable of spotting

the flow of nerves.

Through this observation, he had confirmed

where to induce malfunction

and which part of the brain to target

with the poison that acts on nerves

in order to unlock the hatch.

The cut made by Soujirou the Willow-Sword

turned out to be a keyhole

for Dakai the Magpie.

[Nihilo chuckles]

[Nihilo] You really do like to chat,

don't you?

[Dakai]

Aren't my conversations interesting?

[sighs]

Perhaps they are…

[tense music playing]

[music intensifies]

- [sword scrapes]

- [music fades]

[squelching]

[buzzes]

[rumbling]

[Lana breathing heavily]

[gulps, grunts]

H-Higuare…

was k*lled.

[Lana] Was it the World Word?

[breathes shakily]

Was that the power of the World Word?

[pants]

Huh?

[Lana gasping]

[fire crackling]

[Lana] They were strong too.

We had to overcome them to save Aureatia.

Yet they were k*lled so easily…

[Lana breathing heavily, shakily]

[Lana grunts]

[sniffles, breathing shakily]

Monsters that trample over others

like trash shouldn't be allowed to exist.

[Lana gasps softly]

- [Elea] Lana, what are you doing?

- [gasps]

Elea. Kia.

[fire crackling]

This is too awful.

The place is full of monsters.

[residents screaming, clamoring]

I'll destroy it all!

- Lana!

- [gasps]

This city and the rest of you in it!

I should just blow it all away

with the Cold Star!

[Lana] Somebody…

[shouts]

Somebody has to or it will never end!

Lana!

[gasps]

[chiming]

[zapping]

Stop!

[zapping stops]

[both gasp]

Disperse.

[chimes]

[terrified gasping]

[Cold Star clatters]

Calm down, Lana.

[Kia] You're probably so scared

that you can't think straight.

You're not acting like the Lana I know.

Isn't that right?

[terrified gasp]

- [fire crackling]

- [Kia] All this horror is the reason.

Professor.

You said my power was meant

to make people happy, didn't you?

[gasps]

Kia, stop!

You mustn't reveal your power!

[gentle music playing]

Vanish.

[fire blazing]

[uplifting music playing]

[shocked gasp]

- Lana…

- [gasps]

…there's nothing to be afraid of now.

W-Who…

[Lana] Who are you two?

[Elea] Lana.

Let's go home.

[terrified gasping]

[Lana whispers]

Do you…

Do you plan to k*ll me?

[breathes shakily]

Please don't. I beg you.

[Lana] Kia is watching.

Lana, um…

[Kia] The truth is,

I'm capable of anything.

I'm sorry for keeping it a secret.

I'm sorry for not being able

to save your city sooner.

Though she may be a monster,

you want to be

a kind and beautiful professor, don't you?

[Lana] Please.

[melancholy music playing]

[Elea] Lana.

There's no way

this professor would do anything

to hurt you.

[closing theme music playing]

Next: Episode 11

When the Sun Sets